Optical pulse shaping device and method
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorGary C. Bjorklund
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Abstract
An optical pulse shaping device and methhod of shaping an optical pulse involves the use of a phase coherent multi-frequency light beam with an optical element consisting of a sample containing an absorption band with multiple holes. The holes are burned into the sample to selected depths at selected frequency locations, thereby permitting the relative phases and amplitudes of the input frequency components of the beam to be independently varied to arbitrary values. This system enables a generalized Fourier synthesis of optical pulses such as a laser with designed temporal profiles to be effected.
Claims7
A method of forming optical pulses having a designed pulse shape in time comprising the steps of:
- passing a phase coherent multi-frequency light source beam through a material containing a broad inhomogeneous absorption band containing a plurality of holes of a preselected depth at preselected frequency locations whereby the amplitude and phase of each optical frequency component are adjusted by the preselected holes in the material.
A method of forming optical pulses having a designed pulse shape in time comprising the steps of:
- providing a phase coherent multi-frequency light source beam, and
- passing said beam through a material containing a broad inhomogeneous absorption band containing a plurality of holes of a preselected depth at preselected frequency locations whereby the amplitude and phase of each optical frequency component are adjusted by the preselected holes in the material.
An optical pulse shaping device comprising:
- a material containing a broad inhomogeneous absorption band containing a plurality of holes of a preselected depth at preselected locations wherein the passage therethrough of a phase coherent multi-frequency light source beam will adjust the amplitude and phase of each optical frequency component that passes through one of said holes, and
- means to provide a phase coherent multi-frequency light source beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.